All Things Afrikan
My Heroes
by Mba Mbulu
My heroes don't have a good reputation. My heroes are usually hanging out on white America's streets, driving by in white America's ghettoes, using white America's vibrators, dildos and syringes, "fuckin" white America's niggas and "bitchin" about white America's wenches. My heroes do poorly in white America's schools, don't know "how to talk," have the manners of social misfits, love music that degrades their humanity, don't value anybody's property and distrust rumors like love, respect and honor. My heroes are bad off, but they have what it takes to make the Black Nation a physical reality.
Why are my heroes so special? Because they care. That is one of the reasons they resort to violence so quickly. They possess that zone that Frantz Fanon refers to, that zone that ultimately defines a person as human, that zone that can't be found in many Blacks today. My heroes don't know who to get violent with, but that is not their fault.
My heroes are special because they are brutally honest, because they have survived, because they have evolved a daring code of conduct, because they are strong, and because they fight back in their own way and on their own terms. My heroes' terms are lacking in substance, but that is not their fault.
My heroes are the products of "integration," whereby Black adults let white power raise Black children. My heroes care, but they don't trust caring because they have never been genuinely cared about. They degrade themselves because both Black adults and white power mistreated them with impunit. They are brutally honest because they don't trust undefined terms, and they fight back on their own terms because the terms of others have victimized them.
My heroes are the victims of "integration." They were disrespected, so they disrespect. They were taken lightly by others, so they take others lightly. Nobody valued them, so they don't value anybody. But they are intelligent, and mad; and they want to make somebody pay. They will make Black adults pay, and they will make white power pay. WORD!
My heroes don't have a good reputation. My heroes are usually hanging out on white America's streets, driving by in white America's ghettoes, using white America's vibrators, dildos and syringes, "fuckin" white America's niggas and "bitchin" about white America's wenches. My heroes do poorly in white America's schools, don't know "how to talk," have the manners of social misfits, love music that degrades their humanity, don't value anybody's property and distrust rumors like love, respect and honor. My heroes are bad off, but they have what it takes to make the Black Nation a physical reality.
Why are my heroes so special? Because they care. That is one of the reasons they resort to violence so quickly. They possess that zone that Frantz Fanon refers to, that zone that ultimately defines a person as human, that zone that can't be found in many Blacks today. My heroes don't know who to get violent with, but that is not their fault.
My heroes are special because they are brutally honest, because they have survived, because they have evolved a daring code of conduct, because they are strong, and because they fight back in their own way and on their own terms. My heroes' terms are lacking in substance, but that is not their fault.
My heroes are the products of "integration," whereby Black adults let white power raise Black children. My heroes care, but they don't trust caring because they have never been genuinely cared about. They degrade themselves because both Black adults and white power mistreated them with impunit. They are brutally honest because they don't trust undefined terms, and they fight back on their own terms because the terms of others have victimized them.
My heroes are the victims of "integration." They were disrespected, so they disrespect. They were taken lightly by others, so they take others lightly. Nobody valued them, so they don't value anybody. But they are intelligent, and mad; and they want to make somebody pay. They will make Black adults pay, and they will make white power pay. WORD!
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